Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This partial curtailment of the navy's building plans was made largely in the interest of Japan's annually more formidable air program...
While the development of military and naval aircraft is being proceeded with in secret, no less than 11,200,000 yen ($5,600,000) was included in the budget last week for the purpose of subsidizing and developing commercial air routes alone...
Hearst Editor Brisbane, ever as quick to deplore the lack of U. S. air preparedness as he is to laud his political hero, Calvin Coolidge, deftly interwove these two fetishes into a neat parable last week...
...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...
...Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...